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Facts:
In a sworn statement 1 taken on 16 February 1991, Chanda
Lucas y Austria, then seventeen years old, charged her natural
father, accused Jose Conrado Lucas, of attempted rape
committed against her on 12 February 1991. She revealed
therein that she was first raped by him when she was only nine
years old, or, as disclosed in a handwritten note at the left-hand
margin
of
her
sworn
statement
On 19 February 1991, Chanda, assisted by her mother, Ofelia
Austria-Lucas, filed two separate sworn criminal complaints for
rape 2 and for attempted rape 3 against her father with the
Regional Trial Court of Quezon City. The complaints, docketed as
Criminal Cases Nos. Q-91-18465 and Q-91-18466, were
subsequently assigned to Branch 104 of the said court
That on or about the 26th day of November 1982 and sometime
thereafter in Quezon City, Philippines and within the jurisdiction
of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, with lewd
designs and by means of violence and intimidation did then and
there, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously have sexual intercourse
with the undersigned CHANDA LUCAS Y AUSTRIA, who was
then nine (9) years old, now 17 yrs. of age, against her will, to
her damage and prejudice in such amount as may be awarded to
her under the provisions of the New Civil Code.
while that for attempted rape in Criminal Case No. Q-91-18466
reads:
That on or about the 12th day of February 1991, in Quezon City,
Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court,
the above named accused, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully
and feloniously with lewd design and by means of force and